Governor, top health officials take action following CBS 6 investigations into nursing home oversight
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The state's highest ranking health officials said change is coming to protect some of Virginia's most vulnerable people — nursing home residents.
Secretary of Health and Human Resources Janet Kelly and State Health Commissioner Dr. Karen Shelton sat down with CBS 6 investigative reporter Tyler Layne Tuesday to discuss Governor Glenn Youngkin's newest executive order which aims to strengthen the oversight of nursing facilities across the commonwealth.
The order, which was announced Monday, puts a heavy focus on overhauling the state office within the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) responsible for licensing, inspecting, and investigating the state's nearly 300 nursing homes.
"The more we kept looking under the hood and hearing stories and hearing reports from people like you in the media who were shining a light on this, the more we realized that we needed to keep digging and so between legislation and leadership changes and now this executive order, we feel really good that we're going to leave this industry better than we found it," said Kelly, a member of the governor's cabinet who oversees twelve state agencies including VDH.
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